Free Courses

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Learn about Christianity through a study of its sacred scriptures. We will explore how diverse Christians have interpreted these writings and practiced their teachings over a 2000 year, global history.

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Learn how to better understand the rich and complex ways that religions function in historic and contemporary contexts.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

How can we eradicate malaria? Explore cutting-edge science and technology, and examine policies needed, to control and eliminate malaria.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, through an exploration of the rich diversity of roles and interpretations in Muslim societies.

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.